Make DateInput and DateTimeInput render as a html5 field type="date" and type="datetime"

[Troy Grosfield]

One of my favorite changes to django 1.6 was making all the form inputs render to html5 types:

The default widgets for EmailField, URLField, IntegerField, FloatField and DecimalField 
use the new type attributes available in HTML5 (type='email', type='url', type='number'). 
Note that due to erratic support of the number input type with localized numbers in 
current browsers, Django only uses it when numeric fields are not localized.

So the big question here is why was the date and datetime fields left out if they all just fall back to rendering as text inputs anyway?

• ​http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.date.html
• ​http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.datetime.html

The untested change I think is simply:

• ​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/widgets.py#L431

class DateInput(DateTimeBaseInput):
    format_key = 'DATE_INPUT_FORMATS'
    input_type = 'date'

and

• ​https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/widgets.py#L435

class DateTimeInput(DateTimeBaseInput):
    format_key = 'DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS'
    input_type = 'datetime'

[Troy Grosfield]

Created the pull request for this change:

• ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/1941

[Tim Graham]

I believe this was intentionally omitted. Have you read the discussion on the ticket?

[Troy Grosfield]

I figured there was a reason for it, but I didn't see the discussion on the ticket for it. Thanks for the heads up timo.